Jean Anouilh Quotes

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Saintliness is also a temptation. - Jean Anouilh quote.
Saintliness is also a temptation.
— Jean Anouilh Becket

temptation virtue paradoxical

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh quote.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
— Jean Anouilh Ardèle

love

Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, one must write. - Jean Anouilh quote.
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, one must write.
— Jean Anouilh Becket

talent

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. - Jean Anouilh quote.
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
— Jean Anouilh Becket

courage

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. - Jean Anouilh quote.
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
— Jean Anouilh

art

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. - Jean Anouilh quote.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
— Jean Anouilh Becket

poets inspiration

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. - Jean Anouilh quote.
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
— Jean Anouilh Antigone

law

One cannot weep for the entire world.  It is beyond human strength.  One must choose. - Jean Anouilh quote.
One cannot weep for the entire world.  It is beyond human strength.  One must choose.
— Jean Anouilh Cecile, Or the School for Fathers

crying

The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice. - Jean Anouilh quote.
The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.
— Jean Anouilh The Rehearsal: A Play

art

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it some day, but it has one arch-enemy—and that is life. - Jean Anouilh quote.
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it some day, but it has one arch-enemy—and that is life.
— Jean Anouilh Ardèle

love

When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past—and when you are seventy, nearly all of you. - Jean Anouilh quote.
When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past—and when you are seventy, nearly all of you.
— Jean Anouilh Time Remembered

age 40 the past age 70